Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?

  • fidodo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    A good analogy is Google with Gmail. They became the biggest player in email and even gained a lot of influence over for email works, but you can easily use another email provider and not be locked out of the system.

    Imagine how horrible things would be if email were centralized. We really need to thank the founders of the internet for having the foresight to not let that happen.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      It’s funny you bring Email as an example because everyone using the same 3-4 providers effectively centralized email. Anyone who tries to run any self-hosted email with decent volume quickly discovers this fact